(a non-profit collective promoting traditional & roots folk
music in London since 1973)
(founding
member of Scotland’s Battlefield Band)
Sunday, May 25, 2025 – 7:30 pm
(Doors at 7:00 pm)
Chaucer’s Pub, 122 Carling Street, London
$25 Advance / $30 at the Door
Advance
tickets can be purchased at Grooves (Wortley Village),
Long
& McQuade (Fanshawe Park Rd W) and online
Glasgow born Alan Reid has been taking Scottish folk music all over
the world since 1975. He joined the fledgling Battlefield Band in 1969 while studying at Strathclyde
University and subsequently toured and recorded almost 30 albums with this
hard-working and enduring band up until 2010, in that time garnering a
reputation for his playing and his singing. His groundbreaking
keyboard work along with his story-style songwriting and sensitive renditions
of traditional song helped cement the band’s reputation as one of the most
influential Celtic bands of its generation. With the band Alan toured the
world, bringing Scottish traditional music to audiences in five continents and
playing in many prestigious music festivals and venues. In 2009 he was
nominated in the Scots Traditions Awards in the ‘Composer of the Year’
category. Along with former Battlefield
Band colleagues he was inducted into the Scottish Traditional Music Hall of
Fame in November 2016 in recognition of their contribution to Scots
traditional music.
From achingly
beautiful ballads (like The Riccarton Tollman’s Daughter and The
Pleasure will be Mine) to an entire musical cycle centered on the life and
times of Scots native John Paul Jones, Alan has long fostered a reputation for
songs in English and Scots that are strong in melody and historical content.
In recent years Alan has taught Scots Song at
the prestigious annual “Swannanoa Gathering” in North Carolina, USA. He was
also a guest artist in the Linn Records mammoth 12 CD recording of the songs of
Robert Burns, Scotland’s beloved National Poet, whose poems, songs and music
have endured over the centuries. As well as the recordings with Battlefield
Band and with Rob Van Sante, Alan has released two solo albums, The Sunlit
Eye and Recollection.
"A master storyteller in song" - Hylton Arts Center, Manassas VA
For Information call
519-319-5847 or e-mail folk@iandavies.com
If you have dinner at The Marienbad
Restaurant (519-679-9940), next door to Chaucer’s, prior to the concert, you
can reserve your seats for the concert by placing your coats on your choice of
chairs prior to the doors opening to the general public.
The Marienbad Restaurant is
open for dinner on concert days.
Concert day diners
can reserve their seats in Chaucer’s prior to doors opening.
Make your reservation by
calling 519-679-9942
All concerts at begin at 7:30 pm and most are held at Chaucer's,
122 Carling Street, London, ON
(unless otherwise indicated)
Advance tickets can be purchased during the season at
Chaucer's/Marienbad Restaurant, Grooves (Wortley Village),
Long & McQuade North (Fanshawe Park Rd W) and online.
For
Information call 519-319-5847 or e-mail folk@iandavies.com
Special
Advance “5-for-4” Multi-Ticket is available for $100 only
at the Concerts
(pay
for 4 concerts and get the 5th one free)
We
continue to be a completely volunteer run organization. We thank you for your
support of live music and look forward to seeing you at the concerts. – Ian Davies, Artistic Director.
What’s
happened so far in the 2024-25 Season
TALISK - Thursday,
Sept. 19, 2024
at Rum Runners, London
(presented
by Sunfest in cooperation with Cuckoo’s Nest Folk Club)
FRIENDS OF FIDDLER’S GREEN – Sunday,
Sept. 22, 2024 – SOLD OUT
RYAN YOUNG with Alanna Jenish – Sunday, Oct. 6, 2024
BREABACH
with Jenna
Moynihan – Saturday, Oct. 19, 2024
at Metropolitan United Church, London
(presented
by Sunfest in cooperation with Cuckoo’s Nest Folk Club)
Direct
from Wales & Ireland
CATRIN FINCH & AOIFE NÍ BHRIAIN
– Thursday, Nov. 7, 2024
at Wolf Performance Hall, London
(presented
by Sunfest in cooperation with Cuckoo’s Nest Folk Club)
JOE JENCKS – Sunday, Nov. 17, 2024
MATTHEW BYRNE
– Sunday, Nov. 24, 2024
BOREAL
- “Songs for the Snowy Season”
Sunday, Dec. 15, 2024 - SOLD OUT
PUB
CAROLING – Friday, Dec. 20, 2024 - SOLD OUT
A Fundraiser for the London Food Bank
*Between the BOREAL concert and this one we
raised $900 plus 74 lbs of food*
David Bradstreet with Carl Keesee
- Sunday, Jan. 19, 2025 - SOLD OUT
CD
Release Concert – “Live in London”
Langille &
Sims - “Blue Valentines #6” – Saturday, Feb. 8, 2025 - SOLD OUT
New Cumberland
- Sunday, February 16, 2025 - SOLD OUT
Newberry &
Verch - Sunday, March 2, 2025
(presented
by Sunfest in cooperation with Cuckoo’s Nest Folk Club)
Genticorum
- Sunday, March 30, 2025 - SOLD OUT
(presented by
Sunfest in cooperation with Cuckoo’s Nest)
Graham Lindsey Trio - Sunday, April 26, 2025
(Paul Mills, Graham Lindsey, Maddy O’Regan)
David Essig
- Sunday, May 4, 2025
(last update May 5, 2025)
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